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10 Facts About Texting While Driving:

1. Texting makes a crash up to 23 times more likely.

2. Teens who text while driving spend 10% of the time outside their lane.

3. 97% of teens agree that texting while driving is dangerous.

4. 1 in 5 drivers of all agress admit to surfing the web while driving.

5. 39 states, plus D.C., prohibit all drivers from texting.

6. In June 2011, more than 196 billion texts were sent in the United States.

7. 40% of teens say that they have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone.

8. Women are more likely than men to reach for their cell phones while driving.

9. 9 in 10 teens expect a reply to a text or email within five minutes or less.

10. Five seconds is the minimal amount of attention that a driver who texts takes away from the road.

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